Possible diabetes in 4 year old

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I need help I’m at my whit end

For the past few weeks I’ve noticed my daughter having spells of lethargy. I haven’t really thought anything of it.

She came home from nursery on Tuesday and was acting really strange, extreme tiredness, red face, irritable and whiny, slight tummy pain and felt sick. She managed a couple of mouth fulls of dinner, then totally snapped out of it and was literally back to normal?

She was fine Wednesday and Thursday

Picked her up from nursery Friday and same thing happened again but much worse. Came home sat on the sofa did not move and didn’t say a word, was falling asleep couldn’t keep her eyes open. That is not at all like her, she’s usually bouncing of the walls after nursery. After a couple of hours she started to get irritable, whiny again rolling around on the floor, gaffing as if she felt sick. Took her up to bed and was completely fast asleep by 6pm! Woke up at midnight crying and threw up only the once. Went back to sleep.

Saturday she was extremely lethargic, lay down the whole morning, it was my birthday so went to a restaurant and she spent the whole time lying on her dad saying she wanted to go home! She then started complaining her tummy hurts so I took her to the out of hours clinic. The examined her wee and found 3+ ketones but no sugar.

Today Sunday, still lethargic walking around half asleep or lying on the sofa. Woke up crying this morning saying she had a headache. Not wanting to eat much, does keep asking for drinks constantly. We have noticed she does keep getting a red flushed face?

Any ideas? I’m so worried about her!

Take her to a&e!

Oh first thought: Whilst obviously it could be something more serious, I'd expect is a bug of some sort. Given us Sunday evening now, I'd try to get a GP appointment for tomorrow morning. It doesn't sound like an a&e job to me yet.

On reading it properly again and seeing about the keytones: this would probably tip it to getting it checked out tonight for me, though I'd probably phone 11 first. Where I live there's a GP walk in until late, so I'd go to that still rather than A&E in the first instance, if something like that is available.

I mean I wouldn’t jump to diabetes. When my child was diagnosed with Type 1 they were drinking water excessively and wetting the bed and weeing a lot. He wasn’t lethargic, he was pretty irritable though. Glucose would show up in urine. If you’re worried get her rechecked. Ketones can be because of not eating.